DNA evidence has tied a man to a rape that happened 16 years ago in an apartment complex in the 1000 block of East Dartmouth Avenue, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey said.

Richard Scott DePina, who faces a charge of kidnapping and sexual assault, is believed to be the man who followed a woman home from a shopping center to her apartment on the night of Jan. 12, 1992, Morrissey said.

The charges allege that DePina fled the woman’s home but left DNA at the scene. Denver cold-case detectives found a DNA match to DePina, who is currently in prison in Sterling in connection with a 1993 kidnapping and rape case out of Arapahoe County, Morrissey said.